During the first week, we went right back to basics. At A Level, Art was quite restrictive (grid methods, copies of art) which was a good thing at the time; it encouraged you to pay attention to detail. However, this began to be a bit self destructive. If something wasn't perfect, I wasn't happy with it. Doing drawings with sticks and ink made me loosen up and just go for it. There was no way the outcome would be perfect while I was drawing "blind" but it didn't matter. The aim wasn't to make an exact copy of what I could see, it was to represent it as best I could by looking intently and using markmaking and diverse materials.
After I had produced a series of line drawings using sticks and
ink, I chose two of the drawings to tear up and construct a 3D
model of the object. Then, I drew the model using sticks, graphite and ink.
The final drawings of my model included tone as well as basic lines. Even though I made a few mistakes while I was drawing the ankle of the shoe on one of the drawings, I just went over it. As well as learning to loosen up, this exercise made me see that it's no big deal if the drawing has mistakes. They make the drawing look better because it's more honest; if I'd started again on a fresh sheet and made a neat, perfect copy it wouldn't look handmade.
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